Pueno , I can spell asshole, It's PUENO , also means cranky old liberal.
What's your problem, was it the term frog you found so offensive, are you French? I have French blood, have been to France several times , went to Chamonix for my honeymoon.Love the French, their culture ,food, almost everything , except their cars and politics.
Are you saying I am completely wrong? You must think Rodger Clemens was the only guy in BB using steroids, it's called a witch hunt .

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Pueno , I can spell asshole, It's PUENO , also means cranky old liberal.
What's your problem, was it the term frog you found so offensive, are you French? I have French blood, have been to France several times , went to Chamonix for my honeymoon.Love the French, their culture ,food, almost everything , except their cars and politics.
Are you saying I am completely wrong? You must think Rodger Clemens was the only guy in BB using steroids, it's called a which hunt .

Surfing legend Laird Hamilton thinks it's BS that Lance Armstrong got stripped of his Tour de France titles, but not because he thinks doping is wrong ... but because everyone was doing it.

Hamilton took the unusual position when our our photog bumped into him yesterday in Malibu ... saying he believes that if everyone is cheating in a sport, then it's "still an even playing field, it's still the best guy wins."

Hamilton also said he thinks the public coming down on athletes who are found to be cheating isn't right, saying, "I think it's a little bit of hypocrisy that we think these athletes are sterile people that are eating dry toast and then they're performing at these high levels. Rocket ships need rocket fuel to go to space. Athletes need the fuel they need to do what they need to do and let's be realistic about that."

The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency hit Armstrong with a lifetime ban yesterday and stripped him of his seven Tour de France titles after concluding he used performance-enhancing drugs. Armstrong maintains his innocence. .

This makes me think of Red Bull, you know, that stuff that gives you a boost.
They sponsor sports all over the place, I see Red Bull helmets on competitors all over the winter olympics for instance.
Would Red Bull be considered a performance enhancer? Where do they draw the line?

Laird Hamilton just fell off his pedestal, IMO. What letter of the word, "cheating" does he, or Armstrong, fail to understand? Laird, and now Armstrong if he really was playing the "I'm innocent until they catch me" game, just joined my list of people I wouldn't hire to manage a company picnic. People with that attitude, even if they have 99th percentile job skills, foment and invite trouble. If they can't be trusted to play by rules they promised to observe, how are they any different in principle, though obviously not in scope, from Kenneth Lay or Bernie Madoff? IOW, are Lay and Madoff merely two more cheating jocks who fell into bigger opportunities? Why should cheating sports stars get a pass just because they aren't CEOs?

When I was elected (without even knowing I was being considered) to chair a state-wide racing commission, my job included deciding the outcome of any competitive event rule disputes. Even when I had to rule against friends or my own racing club, the job was fairly easy as long as I kept reminding myself of one thing: in ruling against a person or club who broke a rule, I'm protecting everyone who came in 2nd or 143rd because they raced by the rules everyone signed but the guy standing in front of me cheated. (I was re-elected twice, until the military transferred me to another state.) A win by cheating is not a victory in any competition I can think of, and should be punished beyond nullification of the alleged victory. What else does "cheating" mean?

Laird and Lance are still fantastic athletes, but neither, apparently, is the man he pretends to be. I'd love to know what Karnazes, or Nyad, or any clean Olympic athlete thinks of this "screw my competition, screw my word, win at any cost" attitude. Hell, I don't even support cutting another racer off. I always gave them room to race so we knew who the faster racer was. The only time another desert racer cut me off, I instinctively put my shoulder and my throttle into the guy and mowed his ass out of the way. If the rules prohibited that, I never found about about it.

Laird and Lance are still fantastic athletes, but neither, apparently, is the man he pretends to be. I'd love to know what Karnazes, or Nyad, or any clean Olympic athlete thinks of this "screw my competition, screw my word, win at any cost" attitude. Hell, I don't even support cutting another racer off. I always gave them room to race so we knew who the faster racer was. The only time another desert racer cut me off, I instinctively put my shoulder and my throttle into the guy and mowed his ass out of the way. If the rules prohibited that, I never found about about it.

Heh, funny that you mention Dean Karnazes, he was a friend of mine back when he lived in my neck of the woods, he'd WS circles around the rest of us back in the mid 80's thru the early 90's, before he moved up the S.F. bay area. Back then he would tout the benefits of caffeine to us as a boost before going windsurfing, but I'm pretty sure that was it, at least that's all he would tout.
Which brings me to Greg LaMond, I wonder if he's worried, should he be? It's hard to tell anymore, seems like society loves to bring down the "super athletes" now days, deserved or not.

N.W. 30. Greg La Mond (now officially the only American winner of the Tour de France) is generally given the benefit of the doubt over here as being one of the few untainted, and naturally gifted cyclists.

It is significant that Armstrong deliberately attempted to sully his name by claiming that he (La Mond) was a doper, and that he (Armstrong) could produce others who could prove it. You don't need be a psychologist to understand Armstrongs hatred of such 'clean' people!

I agree with the initial poster, and with Iso, that 'winning at all costs' is now too deeply ingrained in modern life to reverse, and that the olympic ideal has long since perished. The 'drugging' in all sports is now highly scientifically controlled by specialist doctors and chemists, and they are ALWAYS half a dozen steps ahaead of the testers. Can it ever be reversed?

The best comment I read was from a clean cyclist of good ability who had won a few races. I forget the exact wording but it went ... I don't care if they keep my samples for a hundred years and constantly retest them, I can face the world and my children and say, nobody will ever show me to have been a cheat. I achieved what I did fairly so I can hold my head high, and sleep easily!

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